It’s not every day a suave Radio 3 radio presenter (John Stride) is sent a photo of what appears to be two...
Thank God that's all finished...
By Leslie Stewart. The tribulations of the titular working men’s club cabaret singer, who finds she has to support her entire family...
By Judy Forrest. Charlotte Cornwell’s perfect life in a communal family of close friends is shattered when she has a baby. Featuring...
By Hugh McManus. Glaswegian wife Ann Scott-Jones stoically puts up with continual bouts of drunken violence from husband Joseph Brady until an...
By Derek Mahon and Chris Menaul. A journalist in 1959 Ulster finds help reporting the nocturnal beating and abduction of a youth...
By Leonard Preston. Songwriter Leonard Preston and A+R man John Duttine find their friendship stretched to breaking point when Duttine tries to...
By Richard Harris. Black comedy set in a near-future Britain where euthenasia is both legal and common. Leonard Rossiter is under emotional...
By Harry Barton. Derek Halligan picks up hitchhiker Dilys Hamlett on the M2 out of Belfast. The two slowly realise they’re not...
By Shirley Gee. In a black country historical museum, an unusual relationship develops between a lacemaker and a cleaner. With Victoria Burton...
By David Pirie. Charles Dance is an army captain in 1940, investigating civilian morale in a remote village, and finding suspicion, hate...
By Andy Armitage. Drama set in a secondary school during 1967, with two friends exhibiting very different ambitions. One has his sights...
By Barrie Keeffe. Thomas Baptiste retires and plans to leave the UK for Jamaica. His daughters (including Josette Simon) are not impressed....
The comings, goings, loungings and snortings of a group of middle class twentysomething Oxford graduates sharing a house in freshly-gentrified Brixton. Viv,...
By Howard Brenton. Two struggling expeditions in the Kalahari are contrasted. In 1983, Cherie Lunghi and Mick Ford; in 1848, Tom and...
By Rose Tremain. Eleanor Bron rebuilds her life after a traumatic period. With TP KcKenna.
Adapted by Tony Garner from Robert O’Brien’s popular ‘adultescent’ novel. A post-Holocaust Welsh valley is populated by just two families, who gradually...
By John Wain and Robert Smith. Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies...
Notebooks out, completists!
By Peter Ransley. Eva Griffith and Cassie Stuart are two orphaned teenagers in care. With Jesse Birdsall.
By David Cregan. Patrick Troughton is a GP whose grown-up children are in no hurry to leave home.
By Raymond Hitchcock. A boys’ boarding school in 1940, where three pupils look beyond their final exams to an adult life in...
By Peter Terson. Workmates Colin Jeavons and Bruce Purchase buy a derelict narrow boat from dodgy Frank Middlemass, and find themselves renovating...
By Don Shaw. The Play for Today slot had largely kept away from historical drama, but the reasons for this production going...
By David Hopkins. Elderly country dweller Arthur English sends his ill wife to be looked after by his daughter in London. To...
By Maurice Leitch. Two travelling evangelists spread a fiery gospel to a peaceful part of Co. Antrim in 1959, befriending a retarded...
By Reg Gadney. Well-to-do widow Elizabeth Sellars meets retired sergeant major Dave King at her husband’s graveside and they start going out...
Bowing to popular demand, Alan Gibson resurrected his time-travelling milksop for a second adventure, which was shown a week after a repeat...
By Alan Clews. 1940: The lives of UK-dwelling Italians and Germans are disrupted when Italy joins the war and ‘unfriendly’ immigrants are...
By Paula Milne. James Hazeldine and Dearbhla Molloy prepare meticulously for their first child, then start to panic as the birth gets...
By Frances Galleymore. Five orphaned children are split up, with the eldest (Perry Fenwick) put in charge. Featuring Nicholas Lyndhurst as a...
Alan Bennett plays a 39-year-old man in his own tale of a lonely vigil at his dying father’s bedside, conversing wistfully with...
By Philip Martin. Nuclear paranoid Anthony Brown troops his family (including wife Sheila Hancock) into their shelter in the garden for a...
Well-meaning, but utter shite nonetheless.
Russian dissident tapes Top of the Pops. Big trub all round!
The future... about twenty-seven years ago.
By Wally K Daly. Kenneth Farrington plays a popular but troubled misfit. With Paul McGann, Julie Peasgood.
By Marcella Evaristi. Six former Catholic-educated old friends reunite for the first time in twelve years and swap tales of sexual misadventure.
By Paula Milne. Housewife Rosemary Martin raises eyebrows when she embarks on an ‘unladylike’ career. With Anna Raeburn as herself.
After the relative drop in quality of Who’s Who, Mike Leigh came roaring back to form, first with the formidable 1980 BBC2...
By Brian Thompson. Paul Daneman and Anne ‘Onedin Line’ Stallybrass star as a biology professor and his lab technician in a southern...
By Jim Allen. Middle-aged Paul Freeman tries to recapture the abandonment of youth with a big night out with mates, including Roger...
By Graeme Reid. Kenneth Branagh is the young Billy Martin, suffering life in a poor working class Belfast family under his oppressive...
By Stephen Mulrine. Four students cause chaos working part-time in a factory. Together at last – Pierce Brosnan and Iain ‘Fingermouse’ Lauchlan.
By Rachel Billington. Study of bereavement with Dorothy Tutin.
By Dusty Hughes. Fringe theatre transfer to the screen set in the 1973-4 winter of the three day week, following a clan...
By Janey Preger. Race and class tensions between Frances Tomelty and Jacqueline Tong. With George Costigan and Bill Nighy.
By Tony Bicat. Agatha Christie-style rural murder mystery pastiche with a twist – the offed “lord of the manor” is an oil-rich...
By Rita May. A mini-Watergate scandal erupts before local elections in south Yorkshire when a motorway extension is slated to be built...
By David Hopkins. Tragi-comic tale of a factory lock-out, with the business relocating to Wales and manager Leonard Rossiter and skeleton staff...
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